I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent … - Gloria Steinem

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O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?

Gloria Steinem

I think we're all enmeshed in this political system that is devoted to controlling reproduction. You didn't invent it; I didn't invent it. Thirty percent of us are trying to preserve it, and 70 percent are trying to change it. We're not active enough or voting enough or mad enough.

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We've begun to raise daughters more like sons. . . but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.

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